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| Thread ID: 26798 | 2002-11-05 12:06:00 | PLAYING SOUND IN A BATCH FILE? | Ian W (2457) | Press F1 |
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| 96282 | 2002-11-05 12:06:00 | What is the command line format for playing a .WAV sound file directly in a batch file under WIN98se, without manual intervention? CD C:\WINDOWS\MEDIA SNDREC32 TADA.WAV will successfully open sound recorder with the file tada.wav, but still needs a manual selection of the play button. I don't particularly want to see the recorder control panel either. Suggestions? |
Ian W (2457) | ||
| 96283 | 2002-11-05 19:33:00 | In the old Soundblaster driver disks there used to be included a program called Play.exe, which you could use to play .wav files from the command prompt (something like play tada.wav would just play the Tada). If you can get a hold of the Play program, this will do what you want. Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 96284 | 2002-11-05 19:40:00 | Didn't that require dos drivers to be loaded for the soundcard though! | roofus (483) | ||
| 96285 | 2002-11-05 19:41:00 | try some switchs in your batch like sndrec.exe /p or sndrec.exe /play | roofus (483) | ||
| 96286 | 2002-11-05 21:44:00 | sndrec32 /play /close my.wav Or to run it hidden: sndrec32 /embedding /play /close chimes.wav If you use the embedding flag make sure you use the /close flag or it will keep running in the background. I just opened sndrec32.exe in a text editor and searched for what looked like arguments. |
bmason (508) | ||
| 96287 | 2002-11-05 21:47:00 | >>> Didn't that require dos drivers to be loaded for the soundcard though! It might, but I don't think it should, as the drivers in Windows should be enough (maybe :D) Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 96288 | 2002-11-05 23:38:00 | > > > > Didn't that require dos drivers to be loaded for > the soundcard though! > > It might, but I don't think it should, as the drivers > in Windows should be enough (maybe :D) > > Mike. Nope don't think it will unfortunately. Windows uses plug n play dll's etc. Dos wouldn't have a clue what they are. |
roofus (483) | ||
| 96289 | 2002-11-06 06:25:00 | Do you need that sound to play, or will just a plain "beep" work. | -=JM=- (16) | ||
| 96290 | 2002-11-06 11:19:00 | Thanks Brett for the solution, and others for the ideas. Any idea how to automatically close the DOS window at the completion of the batch file as well? |
Ian W (2457) | ||
| 96291 | 2002-11-06 21:23:00 | If you launch the batch file from a shortcut on the desktop, you can edit the shortcut (or perhaps it's the windows settings for the batch file) to terminate DOS window on completion. Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
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